2021 Midwest PhilMath Workshop
The 2021 Midwest PhilMath Workshop will take place via Zoom on Tuesdays in November, 2021.
The first session will take place on November 2nd. The program is below.
5pm: Øystein Linnebo, Sam Levey, Stewart Shapiro: “Potential Infinity and Theology”
6pm: Owain Griffin: “The Problem of Isomorphic Structures
Abstract: In McCarty (2015) an argument is made to undermine the ante-rem structuralist
account of mathematics. At the conclusion of his paper McCarty poses the
question of whether the same argument `might not prove just as powerful
when directed against the set-theoretic structuralists'. Through this paper
I answer the question firstly by developing McCarty's original argument, and
then showing that set-theoretic structuralism does not fall victim to the chal-
lenge. I therefore conclude that the answer to McCarty's question is negative:
set-theoretic structuralism is not effectively undermined.
For the full schedule and more information, click here.